Pix Liquida
by Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
LIQUIDA
A product of dry distillation of various coniferous woods.
Authorities.
1 , H. and J. Slight, Lancet, 1832-3 (2), p. 598, a man, aged thirty-two years, drank about a gill of the oil of tar, recovery; 2 , Dr. Buckley, Practitioner (Brown-sequard's Archives of Sci. and Pract. Med., No. 2, 1873), effects which sometimes follow local application in skin diseases.
- Fulness and pain in the head, 2.
- Pain in the stomach, 2.
- Constant vomiting (after seven hours and a half), 1.
- Vomiting of a blackish fluid, 2.
- Excessive pains in bowels and loins (after seven hours and a half), 1.
- Ardor urinæ (second day), 1.
- Dark-colored urine, 2.
- Dark-colored fecal evacuations, 2.
- Great exhaustion (after seven hours and a half), 1.
- It may produce an acute eczema, some skins not tolerating the substance at all; while in others an acne is developed from closure and irritation of the sebaceous orifices, 2.
- Occasionally high fever, 2.